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From: Ed King
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old dog learn new tricks bow wow wow
been using Linux regularly since 1998
was a tru64 admin for hamilton county for 8 years
have a den full of various flavors of unix (irix, hp-ux, solaris, etc)
never used vi... until today ;-)
configuring a RedHat-based phone system... unfortunately, NOT asterisk

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From: wes
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welcome to the dark side of the force! use your anger! your hatred will
make you stronger!
-wes

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From: Stephen Haywood
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I use VI all the time, when Nano isn't available. Let the flameware
commence.
Truthfully, though I know how to insert (i), get out of insert mode (esc),
quit (:q), and quit with save (:wq). That is all I have ever found that I
need to do in vi.

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From: "kitepilot@kitepilot.com"
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Man I can't live without 'vi'.
I don't know how to use anything else...
I don't even know how to use 'vi'!
(after 15 years using it exclusively)
ET

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From: Aaron welch
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Way back when I knew alot more powerful commands such as search and
replace, grab a block of lines/letters and move them, etc. Today I just do
the basics. I miss writing shell scripts that should have been actual code.
-AW

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From: Tim Youngblood
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Or :q! as I forget to sudo 50% of the time.

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From: Benjamin Stewart
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I have occasionally made use of the multiple tab functionality in vim
(:tabnew, :tabn, :tabp), and of course sometimes you need to use shell
commands to compile or restart a service(:!make)!

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From: Mike Harrison
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be root or get off the porch.

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From: Dave Brockman
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I must also admit to turning on line numbers, making extensive use of
them, and also a fan of :!sh to shell out :) I am more likely to have
multiple vi sessions open in multiple screen "screens" than I am to
tab in vi itself.... (old habits die hard).
Regards,
dtb
- --
"Some things in life can never be fully appreciated nor
understood unless experienced firsthand. Some things in
networking can never be fully understood by someone who neither
builds commercial networking equipment nor runs an operational
network." RFC 1925
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From: Sean Brewer
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Tabs in vim are fantastic. To open a several files with each in their own
tab in vim just do
vim -p
followed by your file list separated by spaces. It's super handy.

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From: Tim Youngblood
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Haha. Okay I'll always just log in as the root user from now on...

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From: Mike Harrison
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It actually depends on what you are doing. I just couldn't pass up the
cute one-line response. With a subject line of 'Woof Woof'...
My X-windows sessions are almost always a normal user, but if I am at a
prompt, it's usually as root or at least: sudo -s
When doing serious system admin stuff, the real root user has some
different paths and command defaults that make an actual root session preferable to
"sudo -s", of course they are the more dangeroous defaults.
It's a religious thing, and there are valid reasons to use sudo,
do what feels right for you. I like my CLI naked and powerful, doing
exactly what I tell it to. Some people like to ask for special permission
from their master...
Oh. wrong forum (maybe).

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From: Mike Harrison
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Yeah, and I've been up since 2am teaching SQL and accounting to an ex-bank
programmer whome thinks that because "Heidi" http://www.heidisql.com/
says it's a good query to do something, is sure it's the best way to do
something. Hence my long responses, I'm trying to keep my sanity.
Just because you CAN do a "left inner join" with that other table, and an
outer join with a third table, does not make the result set valid with the
data and relationships in them.
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Which gets back to an old topic: A Chugalug meeting focused on MySQL
tuning/tweaks/tricks, and maybe a thought or three about using MariaDB?
Anyone want to play Wednesday evening at 701 Broad 2nd floor?
Maybe next Wednesday night instead?

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From: Tim Youngblood
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Email is such a poor contextual means of communication. Proven. Get some
sleep.